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Straight Up

~ Badfinger
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (24 May 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Apple
  • ASIN: B000006MV8
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,050 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Take It All
2. Baby Blue
3. Money
4. Flying
5. I'd Die Babe
6. Name Of The Game
7. Suitcase
8. Sweet Tuesday Morning
9. Day After Day
10. Sometimes
11. Perfection
12. It's Over
13. Money (Original Version)
14. Flying (Original Version)
15. Name Of The Game (Original Version)
16. Suitcase (Original Version)
17. Perfection (Original Version)
18. Baby Blue (Original Version)

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STRAIGHT UP is Badfinger's best-known album and perhaps thedefinitive example of their sparkling brand of Beatles-influenced pop. Expertly produced by George Harrison and Todd Rundgren, this 1972 album spawned two hit singles (both written by group leader Pete Ham): the romantic ballad "Day After Day" (Badfinger's only gold record) and "Baby Blue", a soaring power pop classic that is still regularly played on rock radio. Most people remember Badfinger for those two songs, but the 10 other tracks on STRAIGHT UP are equally impressive.
Less rock-oriented than their previous album NO DICE (although guitarist Joey Molland contributes several excellenthigh-energy rock songs like "Sometimes" and "Suitcase"), the majority of STRAIGHT UP consists of gentle, melodic songs like Molland's folkish "Sweet Tuesday Morning" and superb Pete Ham compositions like the epic existentialist ballad "Name Of The Game". Now reissued with alternate versions of fiveof the album's songs and a rare single version of "Baby Blue", STRAIGHT UP sounds better than ever and is an essential addition to any rock fan's music collection.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great, 12 Aug 2004
By Oscillator (Carluke) - See all my reviews
Despite being released on Apple with contributions from George Harrison, and with nods in the lyrics to the Beatles it would be doing Badfinger a disservice not to see them as artists in their own right. Nevertheless, maybe I'm hard to please, but this album is not as essential as some reviewers and music monthlies (5 stars in an Uncut review) would have you believe. It has its share of beatleesque harmony but it is far from fragile sounding. This is not summery pop songs by any stretch of the imagination, there is some muscular guitar, but it is approachable. 'Day After Day' is the standout track but the album is let down by pedestrian songs such as'Suitcase'. On the whole though it is enjoyable just don't expect to be dazzled.
The bonus tracks contain 4 tracks of the originally planned follow up to No Dice before the group decided to start the songs again from scratch with George Harrison producing. The liner notes explain that as George Harrison left before Straight Up was completed (due to commitments to the Concert For Bangladesh) Todd Rundgren was drafted into complete the album and used material from both the original and the Harrison sessions.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Badfinger at Their Best. Classic Album, 28 Sep 2006
By Morten Vindberg - See all my reviews
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By the end of 1971 Badfinger had actually recorded two albums since the release of "No Dice". The first remains unreleased to this date!. The second was released in February 1972 ( a bit earlier in the USA ), and was titled "Straight Up". Apple did not like the sound of the original album - they wanted a more polished sound. The rejected album had been produced by Geoff Emerick, and in spring 1971 George Harrison expressed wish to produce the band. Of course this was an offer that could not be rejected. George finished 4 tracks before he had to pull out to work on the Bangla Desh concert . To finish the album Todd Rundgren was recruited. Rundgren went through the recordings done with Emerick and Harrison and did some remixing on some of the tracks. Furthermore 7 new recordings were done for the album, which ended up to be Badfinger's most "produced" album - maybe along with "Wish You Were Here" - and it's indisputably among their finest. This album is one of their best loved, and it ranks among the greatest albums to come out of the seventies.
Pete Ham is the main contributor of songs to the album. His 5 songs on the album are all among his greatest. The two hits, "Day After Day" and "Baby Blue" are well-known ,and "Take it All", "Name of The Game" and "Perfection" are all stand out tracks. Tom Evans wrote "Money" and "It's Over" - the latter considered by many to be one of his greatest with Badfinger. Molland wrote the acoustic ballad "Sweet Tuesday Morning" "I'd Die Babe" ( an optimistic country styled George Harrison production ) and the two rockers "Suitcase" and "Sometimes" - both became part of Badfinger's standard concert repetoire. The album is very well produced by Rundgren/Harrison - a bit overproduced at times, some might say. The bonus-tracks are all excellent - Name of The Game and Perfection even better than the album-versions.

My favourites: Take it All, Baby Blue, Name of The Game (both versions), Day After Day, Perfection and It's Over
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb., 28 Feb 2008
By Karel Bata (London (a posh bit)) - See all my reviews
My brother always amazed me by buying incredible albums by artists I hardly knew, and this is one of them. Many years later I was delighted to find I could buy a fresh copy for myself.

Superb.
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